The Water of Life film series is the result of a four-year collaboration between award-winning Montreal visual artist and filmmaker G. Scott MacLeod, and internationally celebrated storyteller and writer Mike Burns.

Marrying MacLeod’s painterly animations with Burns’ spellbinding storytelling, the four short animated films in The Water of Life film series—The Abenaki – People of the Dawn, The Saga of Murdo MacLeod – and His First Contact with the Abenaki, The Irishman – Child of the Gael, and The French Canadian—tell dramatic early immigrant stories from three of Canada’s largest cultural communities as well as the heartbreaking tale of the Abenaki people.